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“Hearable” devices that do more than improve sound

18 points by madspindel 9y ago

germinalphrase 9y ago
Despite not having hearing loss, I'd be interested in augmenting my hearing. It seems far more useful than I can ever imagine Google Glass would have been for me.
- navs 9y ago
  I'd especially love this when working remotely at cafes/busy shared spaces. Being able to tune in and hear someone better if they're in front of me or speaking directly at me or blocking out background noise.
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    These work quite well: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_enhancing_headphones/hearphones.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_... I’ve tested them in demonstration environments only but they seemed to be close enough to real world cases to me.
    - mgkimsal 9y ago
      would be interested in reading someone's experience comparing these against the bose qc20. i love my qc20 right now. They reduce a lot of background noise, but I can still hear people talking (slightly reduced, but still can hear a conversation). Is this product mostly just a rebranding of the qc20 noise cancelling tech, or is it a different experience?
      - dogma1138 9y ago
        I don't have the QC20 I use QC35 now, and I have been using Bose NC headphones since the QuietComfort 2 came out like 15 years ago. I never used any of the Bose QC in earones but the "hearphones" are nothing like any of the Bose headphones I ever used even the older ones with a much higher (subjectively better) direct voice / talk frequency and amplitude range crossover than the current ones. It's more or less the same technology ofc but the profile of the microphone or at least the tunning / post processing they do is completely different.
ohthehugemanate 9y ago
I don't trust the market to treat all signals equally. There's a great opportunity for selling a cheaper (free?) device that inserts ads, or blocks audio from ads whose companies haven't paid. Or hell, we could just sell the data. The possibilities are endless! I hope someone is working on an open source "augmented" hearing aid.
- mkstowegnv 9y ago
  Make it one that uses AI to improve diction and displays speech to text subtitles (with choice of a second subtitle in another language) on your cell phone or another display of your choosing, and imagine the improvement in communication and language learning.

18 points by madspindel 9y ago

Despite not having hearing loss, I'd be interested in augmenting my hearing. It seems far more useful than I can ever imagine Google Glass would have been for me.

navs 9y ago
I'd especially love this when working remotely at cafes/busy shared spaces. Being able to tune in and hear someone better if they're in front of me or speaking directly at me or blocking out background noise.
- dogma1138 9y ago
  These work quite well: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_enhancing_headphones/hearphones.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_... I’ve tested them in demonstration environments only but they seemed to be close enough to real world cases to me.
  - mgkimsal 9y ago
    would be interested in reading someone's experience comparing these against the bose qc20. i love my qc20 right now. They reduce a lot of background noise, but I can still hear people talking (slightly reduced, but still can hear a conversation). Is this product mostly just a rebranding of the qc20 noise cancelling tech, or is it a different experience?
    - dogma1138 9y ago
      I don't have the QC20 I use QC35 now, and I have been using Bose NC headphones since the QuietComfort 2 came out like 15 years ago. I never used any of the Bose QC in earones but the "hearphones" are nothing like any of the Bose headphones I ever used even the older ones with a much higher (subjectively better) direct voice / talk frequency and amplitude range crossover than the current ones. It's more or less the same technology ofc but the profile of the microphone or at least the tunning / post processing they do is completely different.

ohthehugemanate 9y ago

I don't trust the market to treat all signals equally. There's a great opportunity for selling a cheaper (free?) device that inserts ads, or blocks audio from ads whose companies haven't paid. Or hell, we could just sell the data. The possibilities are endless! I hope someone is working on an open source "augmented" hearing aid.

mkstowegnv 9y ago
Make it one that uses AI to improve diction and displays speech to text subtitles (with choice of a second subtitle in another language) on your cell phone or another display of your choosing, and imagine the improvement in communication and language learning.